Spokane Area Jewish Family Services is pleased to present our 18th annual Spokane Jewish Cultural Film Festival! Since 2005, JFS has brought international films to Spokane that share Jewish life and culture with the community. Our upcoming festival, however, will be unprecedented: We’re going hybrid! 

The festival will take place Feb. 17-27, 2022, and will be presented in a “hybrid” format, provided COVID-19 conditions at the time allow for it. This means opening and closing screenings in person (with precautions in place) at Wolff Auditorium (in Gonzaga University’s Jepson Center) as well as virtual access to all films and numerous programs (such as filmmaker Q&As). It is worth noting that most films in the festival are geoblocked (geographically restricted), as required by the distributors, to the Greater Spokane Area (Spokane-Coeur d’Alene metro, Stevens County, the Palouse). If you are unsure about whether your location falls within the GSA, please don’t hesitate to ask. We can make a limited number of geoblocking exceptions, on most films, for family members of GSA residents whose live elsewhere. And the screening package that includes American Birthright and A Jew Walks Into a Bar is not currently geoblocked.